Athletes
Athletes bear great responsibility with regards to the pursuance of a dual career. They shall be enabled to make informed choices of relevant services offered to them. In addition, athletes possess valuable soft skills gained during their sporting career. Athletes have to capitalise on their sport skills and try to promote themselves in the most effective way on the labour market. Theoretically, athletes are in a favourable situation, because they already have proven to possess several personal and social skills that employers are looking for: perseverance, being reliable and hard-working. All these skills are prerequisites for being successful in sport and are transferred to other parts of life (this skill transfer is the basis of promoting quality PE in schools and resulted in recognizing the notion “education through sport”).
What can be done for athletes do create an enabling environment for dual career?
The A2B workshop on “Athletes” and “Career Programmes” takes place on 6th of May 2010 in Paris.
Please find the following documents pertinent for the workshop:
- Agenda
Presentations:
Review, content and purpose of the workshop
Michael Trinker – A2B Project Manager, EOC EU Office
Results of the study on the training of young sportsmen and sportswomen in Europe
Ineum
Dual Career from the Perspective of the European Commission
Bart Ooijen – Sports Unit, European Commission
Presentation of good practices: INSEP
Jerome Dreyfus, Marc Iteman – INSEP
Presentation of good practices
Franck Bouchetal – Technical Deputy Director of the French Athletics Federatio
Presentation of the preliminary results of the A2B questionnaire
Melanie Strauch, A2B Project Team, EOC EU Office
